Strang Design’s Brazil-inspired Miami house

Strang Layout attracts on Brazil for ‘environmental modernism’ house in Miami

A deft hand when it arrives to mixing modernist architecture and Florida’s tropical local weather, Miami architecture studio Strang Layout has just concluded a Brazil-influenced residence that bears all the hallmarks of its author’s fashion of ‘environmental modernism’. Called on by a few from Brazil who required to fee a new Miami property, Max Strang and his crew blended a wealth of Brazilian influences in a house that the two feels at ease in its spot but also evokes visuals of the owners’ South American house place by means of components, composition, art and home furnishings. 

‘We achieved [the client] by term-of-mouth. Our agency has been active in Miami for above 20 a long time and we have concluded many other homes in this neighbourhood. It was a superb collaboration with the clientele and they undoubtedly brought an open head and a good deal of style and sophistication to the project,’ Strang recollects. ‘Miami has established alone as the stylistic and professional capital of Latin The us. When you acquire that notion and merge it with South Florida’s subtropical climate… It was extremely uncomplicated to include Brazilian influences into the structure of this home.’

Landscape architecture studio La Casona Garden served generate the lush outdoor concept that engulfs the house in tropical greenery, safeguarding it from prying eyes though creating the emotion of serenity and seclusion when within. Strang labored with these and the broader surroundings to mould his architectural solution.

‘The residence is situated in a densely landscaped suburban region just a number of miles from the coronary heart of downtown Miami,’ suggests Strang. ‘This neighbourhood is recognised for generous estate-sized properties and a mature tree cover. At the onset of this job, we strived to integrate the current oak trees into the general structure. The property alone is organised into an “H-shape” which lets all spaces to be flooded with all-natural light and sights of the natural environment. On top of that, the house adopts a sequence of planted roofs and the second ground was designed with vertical trellises to stimulate climbing vines. These attributes more blur the boundaries among property and landscape.’ §